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METHODS AND AIMS
IN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Fig. 1. Chain of boys clearing the Osireion at Abydos.
41 feet deep.
METHODS & AIMS
IN
ARCHAEOLOGY
BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
HON. D.C.L., LL.D., LIT.D., PH.D. : F.R.S. ; HON. F.S.A. (SCOT.) :
Member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute;
Member of the Society of Northern Antiquaries;
Member of the Roman Society of Anthropology;
Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College, London.
WITH 66 ILLUSTRATIONS
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1904
All rights reserved
TO MY FRIENDS
- F. LL. GRIFFITH,
- E. A. GARDNER,
- F. J. BLISS,
- H. CARTER,
- B. P. GRENFELL,
- J. E. QUIBELL,
- J. DUNCAN,
- H. F. PETRIE,
- N. DE O. DAVIES,
- A. C. MACE,
- D. RANDALL-MACIVER,
- B. ORME,
- A. E. WEIGALL,
- M. A. MURRAY,
- L. ECKENSTEIN,
- H. STANNUS,
- C. T. CURRELLY,
- E. R. AYRTON,
WHO HAVE JOINED IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE WORK HEREDESCRIBED, 1884–1903.
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PREFACE
Archaeology is the latest born of the sciences.It has but scarcely struggled into freedom, out ofthe swaddling clothes of dilettante speculations. Itis still attracted by pretty things, rather than by realknowledge. It has to find shelter with the FineArts or with History, and not a single home has yetbeen provided for its real growth.
All other sciences deal with the things around us;with subjects which may, or may not, affect us.Even medical sciences are concerned with themechanical structure of the body, rather than withthe nature and abilities of the mind. But the sciencewhich enquires into all the products and works ofour own species, which shows what man has beendoing in all ages and under all conditions, whichreveals his mind, his thoughts, his tastes, his feelings,—sucha science touches us more closely than anyother.
By this science, of which History forms a part,we